Healing Place Church Swaziland

Mbekelweni Outreach

A beautiful landscape surrounds me as I look up to a multitude of smiling faces. The green of summer is fading to gold as summer begins to relinquish its grip to the inevitable dry air of winter. I sit at the Mbekelweni CarePoint adjacent to the soon to be developed Swaziland Dream Center. A group of brawny mountains frame a quiet lake to form the backdrop to Cup’s Youth Explosion @Mbekelweni.

A group of 40 young people from 4 CarePoints and Healing Place Church converged upon the community of Mbekelweni. Earlier in the day I stood in a classroom surrounded by these 40 young people. We prayed together for our humble seed to take root. We decided to avail ourselves to the purposes of God for that day. Serving one by reaching one…we determined in our hearts to be on mission.

The crowd is silent as a group of young people from Ngwane Park take the stage. The excitement in the crowd is tangible; it is like you can breathe it in. My attention swings back to the stage. One young man from Ngwane Park playing the part of an old man evokes memories of the talent I’ve seen on display during a Broadway show. I keep thinking to myself when did these young people develop into such amazing actors & actresses? The drama ends, the crowd bursts into applause. Immediately a group of ten young people take the stage. My body’s attentiveness to what I’m seeing is abruptly interrupted by both my ears and my body sensing the familiarity of a Joyous Celebration Song. Ten set of eyes suddenly meet the on looking crowd, smiles flash and a flurry of movement ensues. The young people dance in unison as they alternate between styles. All of a sudden Ntombenhle comes to the front of the group. Her foot goes about 5 feet in the air and just as suddenly crashes down to the floor. The crowd goes wild as the dance team takes turns freestylin’ before finishing together.

I stand there at the end of the day astonished. It’s amazing the things God is doing in young people’s lives. Tyrone Dlamini, nineteen years old, just finished sharing his heart and what God sees when he looks at these young people. This is bigger than me…truly I need to understand the phrase I’ve so often heard. Jesus is here and anything can happen…

June 30, 2009 - Posted by hpcswaziland | Uncategorized